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03.10.2009 9:03 pm

Missouri lawmakers defy common sense in health care for poor

House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood

House Budget Committee Chairman Allen Icet, R-Wildwood

Missouri lawmakers should not let ideology stand in the way of health care for the working poor.

Gov. Jay Nixon and the Missouri Hospital Association have come up with a plan to extend health insurance to…

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11.06.2008 9:01 pm

Tied with Thailand on infant mortality

Post-Dispatch file photo

Post-Dispatch file photo

Americans like to think that we have the world’s best health care. Sometimes that’s true.
But in one of the most fundamental measures of health — infant mortality, the percentage of babies who die before their first birthday —…

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